Random Observation...

[shipperx]

You know, when the term "Mary Sue" was first coined, it felt like it had a meaning and a purpose. As years have rolled on, however, and the term has -- for lack of a better word -- 'main streamed' more and more it seems to be used as 'primary protagonist that I don't like'.  'Writer's pet' also seems to occasionally fall into that category.

Comments

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It takes a lot to qualify as a canonical Mary Sue. The threshold isn't just "someone with a reasonably recognizable moral compass who survives lots of stuff and thus is the center of a story" because that's actually a vast majority of protagonists.